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Artiodactyla

Mammal Orders

The even-toed ungulates: hoofed mammals that bear their weight roughly equally on the third and fourth toes of each foot. Artiodactyla includes pigs, camels, deer, giraffes, cattle and, since molecular evidence placed them within the order, the whales and dolphins of Cetacea.

Facts
Disputed
Member Species/Taxa Count
240 1
Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.
Taxonomic Rank
Order 1
Scientific Name
Artiodactyla 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Mammalia, Taxa
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Sources
1. Catalogue of Life
Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of LifeView the Source
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